The List of post offices in the British Mandate of Palestine refers to
post office
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s operated in
Palestine
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under allied British military control of the
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration and, after 1920, the civil administration of the
British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate, postal services were provided by British authorities.
About 160 post offices, branch offices, rural agencies, travelling post offices, and town agencies operated, some only for a few months, others for the entire length of the period. Upon the advance of allied forces in 1917 and 1918 initially ''Field Post Offices'' and ''Army Post Offices'' served the local civilian population. Some of the latter offices were converted to ''Stationary Army Post Offices'' and became civilian post offices upon establishment of the civilian administration. In 1919 fifteen offices existed, rising to about 100 by 1939, and about 150 by the end of the Mandate in May 1948.
With most of the Jerusalem General Post Office archives destroyed, research depends heavily on philatelists recording distinct postmarks and dates of their use.
The postal service operated by the Mandatory authorities was reputed to be the best in the Middle East. Letters were delivered daily in Jerusalem. Palestine joined the
Universal Postal Union
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in October 1923.
[Proud, 2006, p. 14.] The post was transported by boat, train, cars and horses, and after 1927, also by air.
[Baker, 1992, p. 187.] During the volatility of 1947 and 1948, British postal services deteriorated and were replaced by ''ad hoc'' interim services prior to the partition and the establishment of the State of Israel.
Mandate post offices
See also
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Postal rates in the British Mandate of Palestine
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Postage stamps and postal history of Palestine The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze ...
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Postage stamps and postal history of Israel
The postage stamps and postal history of Israel is a survey of the postage stamps issued by the state of Israel, and its postal history, since independence was proclaimed on May 14, 1948. The first postage stamps were issued two days later on May ...
References
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Sources
* Dorfman, David (1985). ''Palestine Mandate postmarks.'' Sarasota, Fla.: Tower Of David.
* Goldstein, Carlos and Emil S. Dickstein (1983). ''Haifa and Jaffa postmarks of the Palestine Mandate.'' Beachwood, Oh.: Society of Israel Philatelists.
* Firebrace, John A. (1991). ''British Empire campaigns and occupations in the Near East, 1914–1924: a postal history.'' London & Bournemouth: Christie's Robson Lowe. .
* Groten, Arthur H. (1988). ''The postmarks of Mandate Tel Aviv.'' Beachwood, Oh.: Society of Israel Philatelists.
* Proud, Edward B. (2006). ''The postal history of Palestine and Transjordan.'' Heathfield. . First edition (1985): ''The postal history of British Palestine 1918-1948.''
* Sacher, Michael M. (1995). ''The postal markings of Mandate Palestine: 1917-1948.'' London: Royal Philatelic Society. .
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